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Podcast: Open the Bible UK Daily
Episode: Jesus Calls His People to Sacrifice
Description: [Jesus called] the crowd to him with his disciples…Mark 8:34In earlier verses, Jesus was speaking privately to all the disciples. In chapter 9 we will see Jesus teaching the inner circle—Peter, James, and John. But here, Jesus is speaking to the crowd: the wider pool of people who might become His followers.
Look at what He says to them: “If anyone would come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my...